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University of California (San Francisco) Transplant Nephrology

Fellowship · San Francisco, CA

Sponsored by University of California (San Francisco) School of Medicine · Director Adrian Whelan

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Class size
2
Visas
J-1, H-1B
PGY-3 salary
$108k2026 to 2027

Red flags

  • New program. Its ACGME accreditation is initial, so few classes have trained here.

Green flags

  • Sponsors H-1B visas. Most programs sponsor only J-1 visas.
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Getting in

How it chooses

  • Applicants apply directly to the program, which reviews applications and interviews on a rolling basis starting in March, 16 months before the July start, for two positions a year.
  • Applicants must have finished internal medicine residency and general nephrology fellowship or foreign equivalents.

Who started, by class

Started 202618 on record · 14 published before starting
  • Hoss Tabriziani28 papers · 7 first author · 1 case report · 4 reviews
  • Rafael VillicanaMayo Clinic26 papers · 3 reviews
  • Sonika PuriUniversity of Connecticut School of Medicine22 papers · 1 first author · 2 case reports · 3 reviews
  • Thin MawSUNY Downstate College of Medicine17 papers · 2 first author · 4 case reports · 3 reviews
  • Fadi HusseinKing Hussein Cancer CenterPrincess Basma HospitalSt Louis University School of MedicineSt. Louis University5 papers · 1 first author · 3 case reports · 2 reviews
  • Jaclyn KhilKaiser Permanente Medical Center5 papers · 3 first author · 2 case reports · 1 review
  • Nicholas HerreraThe MetroHealth System/Case Western Reserve University5 papers · 3 case reports · 1 review
  • Victor PradoCook County Health5 papers · 1 first author · 2 case reports · 1 review
  • Joshua Wolf3 papers · 1 case report
  • Ranjan ChandaJacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University at Buffalo2 papers · 1 first author · 1 review
  • Deepika Kancherla1 paper
  • Divya RaviRochester Regional Health1 paper · 1 case report
  • Grant GiffordUCSF Health Stanyan Hospital1 paper
  • Leonardo Pozo-GarciaDoctors Hospital at Renaissance, Ltd.1 paper · 1 first author · 1 review
  • Harini Chekkera
  • Neda Hashemi
  • Stephen Han
  • Thuy Le

Training

2 training sites.

Months at each site

  • UCSF Health Parnassus12 mo

Where graduates went next

  • Nephrology Fellowship1
  • Transplant Nephrology Fellowship1

Where graduates work now

  • Legacy Good Samaritan Hospital and Medical Center1
  • Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science1
  • Medical University of South Carolina College of Medicine1
  • NYU Grossman School of Medicine1
  • Seton Medical Center1
  • University of California (Davis) Medical Center1

Research

53% of current fellows have a paper since 2023

10 of 19, 34 papers between them

  • Renal Transplantation Outcomes and Treatments
  • Chronic Kidney Disease and Diabetes
  • Acute Kidney Injury Research
  • Dialysis and Renal Disease Management
  • Renal Diseases and Glomerulopathies

Life

$108k to start, $111k by PGY-4.

Pay by year

  • PGY-3$107,917
  • PGY-4$111,434

People

Leadership

  • Adrian WhelanTransplant Fellowship Program Director
  • Pascale KhairallahAssociate Program Director
  • Chi-yuan HsuDivision Chief, UCSF Health

Find someone

Faculty, fellows, graduates and the people fellows publish with.

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  • Adult Congenital Heart DiseasePositions: 2
  • Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant CardiologyPositions: 3
  • Cardiovascular DiseasePositions: 24
  • Clinical Cardiac ElectrophysiologyPositions: 6
  • Clinical Informatics (Internal Medicine)Positions: 9
  • Endocrinology, Diabetes, and MetabolismPositions: 8
  • GastroenterologyPositions: 24
  • Geriatric Medicine (Internal Medicine)Positions: 8
  • Hematology and Medical OncologyPositions: 24
  • Infectious DiseasePositions: 12
  • Internal MedicinePositions: 185
  • Interventional CardiologyPositions: 3
  • Interventional PulmonologyPositions: 1
  • NephrologyPositions: 14
  • Pulmonary Disease and Critical Care MedicinePositions: 21
  • RheumatologyPositions: 8
  • Sleep Medicine (Multidisciplinary)Positions: 2
  • Transplant HepatologyPositions: 3

Place

Summers reach 70°, winters fall to 47°.

Weather by month

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Commute

1.1M people live within 20 minutes of UCSF Health Parnassus by car with no traffic.

Cost of living

A one bedroom rents for about $2,730 a month within 10 miles of UCSF Health Parnassus.

Hazards

  • Earthquakes
  • River flooding
  • LNDS
  • Heat waves

Publishes with fellows

  • Sangeeta BhoradePulmonary Disease, 2 fellows
  • Suphamai BunnapradistNephrology, 2 fellows
  • Diane CibrikInternal Medicine, 2 fellows
  • Ali GharaviNephrology, 2 fellows